My Top 10 Movie Trilogies… So Far.

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It’s no secret that I love movies. In fact, the more movies, the merrier.

So for me, a trilogy is something special. It’s a story that is so massive that it can’t be contained in just one movie. A trilogy is an experience.

Now, any movie can become a part of a trilogy. Look at The Hangover. But to really make a trilogy work, I think it needs to be designed that way- or at least to feel like it was designed that way when you look back at the whole. Each movie has to bring something specific to the table; the first movie has to introduce the world, the characters, and the plot, while the second needs to raise the stakes of that plot and enhance the characters. The third movie, arguably, has the hardest task in bringing that plot to a satisfying conclusion and wrapping up the arcs of all (remaining) characters in a way that doesn’t have fans throwing their popcorn at the screen.

There have been many trilogies that have done a good job at some of those parts- looking at you, Dark Knight trilogy- but few, in my mind, have succeeded in making all three parts work together as a cohesive whole, enhancing the enjoyment of their accompanying movies and, at least for me, going down in history as some of the greatest trilogies in history.

So today, I’d like to explore which movie trilogies are my favorites by placing…